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Entry 27 is out. On quality, what Pirsig meant by it, why Phaedrus breaks trying to define it, and what it might mean for architecture.
https://asupala.me/2026/06/14/entry-27-on-quality/
#quality #architecture #pirsig #zenandtheartofmotorcyclemaintenance #book #writing #blog
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In the age of enshittification Robert Pirsig becomes mandatory reading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance
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"'It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness… If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don’t talk about it, no one knows it is there."
– Robert M. Pirsig
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Pirsig #RobertPirsig
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Ah, #Quality, that #Pirsig had so much to say about. Quality applies to *everything*, but particularly to our #software #designs.
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/the-a-z-of-code-craft-q-is-for-quality/
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"'It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness… If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don’t talk about it, no one knows it is there."
– Robert M. Pirsig
Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Pirsig #RobertPirsig
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"In proportion to his intelligence he was extremely isolated. There’s no record of his having had close friends. He traveled alone. Always. Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. People sometimes felt this and felt rejected by it, and so did not like him, but their dislike was not important to him."
Pirsig, Robert M.. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (p. 74). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
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@kangaroo5383
I wonder if you have read Robert #Pirsig, *Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,* which takes some inspiration from the story of Poincaré's getting on the bus -
@bodhidave @EgyptianAphorist @mcmullin @clarablackink @histodons
Mathematics and #art are human activities, and in a #mathematics paper
(on #conic sections, the #conics, in particular, and described in the
linked blog post), I was pleased to have reason to quote what
Robert Pirsig said about teaching #writing. I commented,> What #Pirsig wanted, as an English teacher, was for students to learn
> to write what *they* wanted. In the end, this would be what everybody
> else wanted, which was *quality.*But there's a difference:
> In mathematics, an essential part of #quality is *truth,* or
> *correctness* if you prefer. We take this to be universal.Not everybody may agree on what is good art, but I think they should
agree on what is correct mathematics.https://polytropy.com/2020/08/05/an-exercise-in-analytic-geometry/
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I like McPhee's question,
> How could anyone ever know that something is good before it exists?
The #Bible suggests that even God cannot know.
I blogged about this last October, looking also at #RGCollingwood and
Robert #Pirsig on the subject of checking one's work -
Ein trauriger #MSV-Tag: Heute wäre Michael #Tönnies 60 Jahre alt geworden, und Detlef #Pirsig wird zu Grabe getragen. Große Zeiten. Gänsehaut-Erinnerungen. Und irgendwie heute #ZebraStreifen in Trist und Grau. Danke, Dicker! Danke, Eisenfuß! #3Liga #Gemeinsam1902
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MSVDuisburg/status/1207571354473652224